Job Description: FinOps Specialist Azure & AWS

Location: India

Role: FinOps Specialist

Experience: 4 8 Years (Cloud FinOps experience preferred)

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced FinOps Specialist with robust hands-on expertise in Azure and AWS cloud cost management, optimization, financial governance, and reporting. The ideal candidate will be responsible for monitoring cloud expenditure, identifying cost-saving opportunities, implementing optimization strategies, and improving cost visibility across both cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage and optimize cloud costs across Microsoft Azure and AWS environments.
- Analyze cloud usage, spending trends, and resource utilization to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Implement and optimize Azure Reserved Instances, Azure Savings Plans where applicable, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) utilization.
- Analyze and optimize AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and use AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations to improve resource efficiency.
- Develop and maintain cloud cost dashboards, budgets, forecasts, and financial reports.
- Configure budget alerts, spending thresholds, and anomaly detection mechanisms to identify unexpected cost increases.
- Establish and maintain tagging policies and governance standards for accurate cost allocation and resource tracking.
- Prepare chargeback and showback reports to allocate cloud expenditure across business units, projects, applications, and teams.
- Work with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and cloud operations teams to implement cost optimization recommendations.




- Monitor cost allocation, resource utilization, idle resources, and underutilized services across cloud environments.
- Use native cloud cost management tools and third-party FinOps platforms to improve cost visibility and reporting.
- Track optimization initiatives, savings achieved, and cloud spending against budgets and forecasts.
- Support FinOps governance, cost accountability, and continuous improvement of cloud financial operations.

Mandatory Skills

- Hands-on experience in Azure and AWS cloud cost management and optimization.
- Strong knowledge of Azure Cost Management and AWS Cost Explorer.
- Experience analyzing and optimizing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans across Azure and AWS.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) and commitment utilization tracking.
- Experience with AWS Compute Optimizer and cloud resource optimization recommendations.
- Expertise in cloud cost dashboards, budgeting, forecasting, alerts, and anomaly detection.
- Experience with tagging governance, cost allocation, chargeback, and showback reporting.
- Proficiency in cloud cost analysis, reporting, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Experience with third-party FinOps tools is an added advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

- FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent cloud financial management certification.
- Familiarity with FinOps best practices and the FinOps Framework.
- Experience with Power BI, Excel, or similar tools for cost reporting and visualization.
- Knowledge of cloud usage patterns, resource sizing, and cost optimization strategies.

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